Rats

[Nicos]

That's frustrating Flo.
Maybe the disturbance disturbed them???

[Florence Fennel]

I really hope so Nicos. Gardener strimmed around the shed and the Ratman put some blocks of bait underneath and so far haven't seen any activity. Fingers crossed.

[Nicos]

I suppose it's basically down to making your garden less attractive than your neighbour's

Fingers crossed indeed.

[Florence Fennel]

Oh no! More and I'm sure they're smaller ones, bad news

[Nicos]

Darn!
young ones aren't generally as streetwise ...might be worth putting down some snap traps? (Wear gloves so they can't smell where you have touched them ) you'd need to make sure a hedgehog/cat couldn't get too close though....

[Jungle Jane]

It could be that the bigger ones are dead in the nest & smaller ones have come out to search for food/the bait,they could be gone in a couple more days hopefully. Did the rat man say if he’d come back again or would the bait take seven days to clear them all out or something?

[Florence Fennel]

He's coming back tomorrow so we'll see!

[Florence Fennel]

No sightings yesterday so hope they're gone.

[mothhawk]

If your shed has a floor, then raising it up on corner pillars to about a foot or eighteen inches would leave the underneath too exposed for rats to feel comfortable, and allow access to any neighbourhood cats to prowl and lie in wait.

[Nicos]

Another alternative is maybe to get something like this?....

https://stop-mouse.co.uk/?gclid=EAIa...SAAEgIFrPD_BwE

We have a very old one we plug in for the cellar - that link shows that battery ones are clearly available!

might be cheaper than keeping on calling out pest control?

As I mentioned early -it would at least make your garden/Shed area less attractive than that of your neighbour's????